Surface Pro Pen pressure sensitivity is not working in photoshop CS6.

I think every single software and hardware manufacturer looks at any artistic support as being anathema to profit.  In fact, I'd say that companies like Wacom specifically bully vendors into ensuring their tools are useless for a real artist.   I mean, look at nearly every single tablet since the WX12 was released.  Display: usually 1280x768, poor color control.  ultra low power CPU's that choke on a graphics application.   Pitiful ram options.  No dedicated GPU - not even a decent hybrid like the ION platform when it was out.  For example, when HP switched from ntrig to wacom for their TX line, they went from the AMD offering with a discrete GPU to the built in Intel graphics, which sucked.   Every single wacom penabled device had some sort of glaring feature crippling defect that prevented it from being a good artist tool.  Even the WX12 had its drawbacks, poor crappy quality screens in some units, calibration issues with a bucketload of units, still needing a power brick instead of providing a battery pack on/with the unit...

The Surface Pro is the closest we've gotten to a device that can do it all moderately well.  A 1920x1080 screen in a tablet sized package, a core i5 with a middling HD4000.  The best that Intel can do - even if its craptastic compared with the AMD integrated offerings.  Its a full computer, unlike the display offerings from wacom - which makes surface infinitely more portable since you don't need another computer, power brick and available outlet for the display in order to use it... 

And here we are with a lack of features in key artistic applications like Photoshop, GIMP, ZBrush, etc.  

I'm contemplating returning my surface pro. And getting the recently released Cintiq 13HD.   I've got 13 days from today.  I really don't want to return it.  Its far more useful than pairing a cintiq with my 17" 2009 mbp and lugging it everywhere, but I bought this to do art in addition to its other features. 

Microsoft can do far, far better than this.  The Kinect is proof that Microsoft has some decent ideas when it comes to hardware devices that add value for consumers. 

It will be really telling if Microsoft fails to provide a full-featured device driver before the Linux community enables the pressure sensitivity and develops the integral APIs for it. 

So Microsoft, what do you say?

It will be really telling if Microsoft fails to provide a full-featured device driver before the Linux community enables the pressure sensitivity and develops the integral APIs for it. 

I gave up on Linux ever supporting pressure styli, at least in a way not requiring card-carrying hacker credentials in order to configure. But I'd be more than happy with a modern slate running a variant of Linux with a pressure stylus for Gimp. AFAICT, Gimp has many brushes and can be quite useful for artists, no?

rwalpha, if you are still within your return window, I'd go for the refund. In the event that MS does good, you can repurchase, or perhaps by then, next gen Haswell or Atom quad core slates will be on the near horizon, and you could then take your time and get what your really want. Surface Pro returns due to lack of Wintab may ultimately be the only metric that gets discussed in the boardroom anyway. Our griping on a discussion board almost certainly doesn't filter up in any kind of meaningful way.

I'm in worse shape than you guys, because I have Sony Duo 11, which is sadly burdened with N-Trig. N-Trig/Sony is even less likely, by magnitudes of order, to support Wintab. Other than that, the Sony really is a splendid device, but I will consider trading up for something later in the year once this murky picture clears.

Hey IvorThomas, be my guest :)

I know a number of incredibly good artists who seem happy to work with the iPad in spite of its pen limitations... many now are using the latest gen Jot or Pogo styluses. Apple doesn't really have to do anything, and they would be harming the developing third party market if they did so. If Android had a compelling art app like Procreate, it might raise the field and show what's possible with the Galaxy Note gadgets. If the such an app existed, I'd go straight to Best Buy right now and get a Note 8. I want Wintab + Photoshop because of the art potential... but I'd be just as happy if Android, Linux/Gimp, Wacom table offered a similar quality experience. Someone just needs to crack this nut once so we can all quit this ridiculous search and get busy doodlin'.